No post for long time!
This has to do with the readings from 5.1-5.4. More very soon, I promise. I know all you hordes of ravenous blog-followers have been going through some serious withdrawal in this past week. Here's one to tide you over for now.
I don't have a strong opinion on case-sensitivity, but I do think that the all-caps stylings of BASIC 'n' friends has a cool retro vibe. As for writability issues surrounding case-sensitivity... I'm not really hung up on this. IDE's like Eclipse can help with these little issues, for one thing. Maybe it's unnecessary complication, but I think we can all agree that the whole point of coding is to impress one's friends by doing complicated looking things. Right? So I can't really see a problem with this. But srsly, I don't think case-sensitivity is a big deal.
What is a big deal is the topic of binding. It is a very big deal. And it hurts my brain to think about it. I mean, the whole distinction between static and dynamic type binding is fine. We have frames of reference for that. But I just don't know that my uninitiated, pre-Computer Organization/Operating Systems/Compilers brain can wrap itself around all this Stack-Dynamic/Explicit Heap-Dynamic/Implicit Heap-Dynamic stuff. May have to read that section a couple dozen more times.
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